Reweeding Mastery

Research documentation and thesis questioning human biodiversity conservation systems, in relation to disobedient urban flora

A research on seeds, weeds and systems of conservation, Reweeding Mastery proposes weediness as a counter-narrative to institutional ex-situ seed banks. Where seed banks make un-natural selections to stabilize, classify and secure biodiversity, weediness embraces disturbance, marginality and uncontrolled growth as sites of in-situ natural conservation, repair and other-than-human intelligence.

Instead of classifying and preserving, the book gathers seeds – fragments, observations and diverse material encounters – into a weedy counter-archive where each page grows in-situ, responsive and open to future
germinations. At this slower  scale of attentiveness, instead of a resource or commodity, each seed reveals itself as intentional in its strategic material gestures,
morphological intelligences and embodied tendencies of hooks, burrs, spines, ribs and hairs, building itself for the resilient evolutions of unruly dispersals